Re: of signals and packets

Hi,

On 8/9/06, Russell Fulton <r.fulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No packets, no interrupts!
>
> I wonder if it would be worth while to feed in dummy packet once a
> second to catch signal when there is no traffic.

Bad hack, better approach might be using
int pcap_get_selectable_fd(pcap_t *p);
in combination with poll / select, so you can specify a timeout of
lets say 200ms, and check whatever you need then.

If done right, one could even poll sockets from modules (which log to
a database).


MfG
Markus Koetter

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